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Check out this Viking Sky cruise ship stranded off the coast of Norway. Lots of video from passengers inside and spectators on shore. Helicopters called into to airlift passengers 10-15 at a time with nearly 1,000 on board.

Coincidentally, I'm reading a book about a guy that recreates some of Captain Cook's voyages while also providing history of the original voyages. Boy, if those guys knew that a few hundred years later people would do what they were doing for leisure...I just got to the part where Captain Cook returned to England for the first time and was thrilled he only lost about a third of his original crew while out to sea for 1,000 days.

Thanks for sharing. A lot of folks don't realize that many maps are extremely misleading. One of the first times I realized that adults could be full of crap was due to maps. I was 6 or 7 and my day care class had a big map of the United States up on the wall. The teachers did a little quiz for treats with the kids that involved several questions about the map, including "what is the largest U.S. state?" I wrote Alaska (my favorite Aunt lived in Bethel and I'd already visited). Everyone else wrote Texas because it was the largest on the map. Everyone but me was awarded points despite my protests that Alaska was actually the largest. All three adult teachers - ALL THREE - told my six-year old a**, "No, look at the map, Texas is obviously the largest. What's wrong with you?"

It's really tough as a young kid to have adults telling you something you believe/know is wrong but I'm proud to say, even at 7, a part of me was thinking, "these people are full of crap." It's a disposition that's served me well over the years.

Disgusting, horrible, stomach-churning video of a father and son murdering a black bear and her cubs. The bear was hibernating and was not even awake, let alone able to defend herself against these wretched human beings. As you can see in the video, they are clearly aware they are doing something wrong and they even return to the scene of the crime a couple days later to clean up their evidence.

I publish this here not for all of you to enjoy the salacious video, but in the hope some of you will go this page and express your outrage by supporting the Humane Society or writing to your congressperson.

Disgusting, horrible, stomach-churning video of a father and son murdering a black bear and her cubs. The bear was hibernating and was not even awake, let alone able to defend herself against these wretched human beings. As you can see in the video, they are clearly aware they are doing something wrong and they even return to the scene of the crime a couple days later to clean up their evidence.

I publish this here not for all of you to enjoy the salacious video, but in the hope some of you will go this page and express your outrage by supporting the Humane Society or writing to your congressperson.

I remember this story when it broke around this time last year. As Jason's link notes, the father and son were rightly punished for breaking federal hunting regulations. It's also extremely jarring to see these men acting so cavalierly about something as serious as killing an animal.

As for how or even whether we should express our outrage, I'd encourage everyone to read more about the regulations in question. You can find more information with a quick google search but here's an article that I believe fairly describes the arguments on both sides of this issue. For what it's worth, there's a good argument to be make that killing a sleeping animal or baiting isn't sporting, but when hunting for food I don't see a meaningful moral difference. How sporting is it to herd Angus steer into a processing chute and kill them with a bolt gun? For those of you who are vegetarian or vegan, I honestly admire your moral consistency. Those of us who buy meat in a grocery store might think about our own complicity before asking congress to regulate hunting in a far away state whose way of life we barely understand.

I dont have a picture of the explosion. But a small Ryder type truck exploded at work today.the driver was alive and went to hospital.im guessing welding gas tank ignited. That's what was left.q50 0 60